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That sometimes happens, and yeah, zoning will fix it.

You want some holds on the team. Ice Blast, Controller, Dominator, Fortunata, whatever, and stack them immediately and repeatedly on Primal Col. Duray. That will keep him from repeatedly teleporting all over.

My condolences on your loss.

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Brutes were nerfed (the damage max was lowered a bit), but it's mostly that Tankers were overbuffed to the point that Tankers are now overpowered. Unless you want to play Energy Aura or Regeneration, Tanker is the objectively superior AT. Every time.

I have been told OpenGL 2.1. Like I said, old. 😀

Homecoming has been having severe networking issues the past sixteen hours or so. The team is aware of it and working on it, with no ETA, per a posting on the Homecoming Discord server.

I've read a couple of reports of the latest AMD MLIR graphics driver hanging Homecoming and crashing Rebirth. The same reports indicate that the latest non-MLIR AMD graphics driver is fine. In any case, City of Heroes uses an old version of OpenGL.

It's not a bug if it's an intentional decision to limit the rate of opening super packs.

/jranger As someone who primarily played City of Villains live, and primarily plays red side now, an absolutely emphatic no. Red side has already been diluted so much over the years, both by Paragon Studios and Homecoming. There's no need to take even more of its identity away, and I actually consider it slightly offensive.

Yes. Not naming names, but I've been on hard mode ASFs with someone somewhat notorious for repeatedly going AFK without notice. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but nope. He was repeatedly blown to smithereens by Golden Brickernauts after going AFK in the middle of combat, only to come back a few minutes later and wonder why he was dead. Happened about a dozen times in one hard mode ASF. Then there are, as I mentioned before, the absolutely terrible Tankers that play like more safe, crit-less Scrappers and like to Leeroy Jenkins it. "This can't possibly kill me." Then the Blasters without any IO enhancement sets that try to join. I've seen one blame others for "letting him repeatedly die."

Not just Sleet, parts of Heat Loss as well IIRC.

Yep, Cold Domination being the biggest offender. I've seen a couple of people ask for Cold Domination's values on Defenders to be increased since they're the same across ATs due to pseudo pets, which is just LOL. Cold Domination is overpowered on Controllers and Corruptors, and quite overpowered on Masterminds.

Yep. If there’s one thing that people need to learn about Blasters, it’s that it is not a ranged AT. Blapper is the norm, ranged is the exception.

IIRC, it was asked for the Lord Winter Trial to at least be made available all year round, but a developer stated that, unlike the Summer Blockbuster, it was tied directly to the winter event and cannot be left on without leaving the whole winter event on 365 days a year, which would mean no Spring Fling event, no Halloween event, etc.

I can't stand playing Tankers, but after PUGing with so many incredibly bad Tankers, it really tempts me to make one just so I don't have to PUG with someone else playing one. Seriously. I've found that there are a lot of absolutely terrible Tanker players out there. Brutes as well, but more so Tankers. They play the AT as a more safe, crit-less Scrapper and completely ignore the team. I've seen two Tankers on a PUG team try to compete with each other and herd a mission map, completely ignoring the actual AV in the mission and going to the opposite sides of the map. Leaving just the "squishies" to deal with the AV. Madness.

I'd argue that for a while there, SG bases were far too relevant on Homecoming.

Heck, I'd say that's a bonus. I, for one, strongly dislike how crowded Ouroboros is, so I intentionally go off to one of the other islands by myself and wait there while either forming a league or while the league is forming.

Any level 1+ Rogue, Villain, or Vigilante that joins your team prior to the start of the final patron arc mission (in this case "Defeat Numina), will obtain the badge to unlock patron power pools.

Do the "Breakout" tutorial, and you'll be given the choice of either Kalinda or Matthew Burke as your first contact at the end. Even if you don't do the Breakout tutorial, you can still walk up to them prior to level 5 and introduce yourself. And as Rudra mentioned, there are still plenty of Snakes around Mercy Island.

I'd say Poison Gas Arrow is a pretty solid skip. I usually wind up skipping Ice Arrow as well since I dislike proccing out powers and I need the power slot for something else.

Thank you!

The Seed of Hamidon has been soloed, although I don't recommend it. Yeah, it doesn't take as many people as people think it does. You can do it with three or more Incarnated out level 50 characters (preferably with debuffs), but people think that it requires a league and don't want to take the trouble forming it for the little rewards it offers.

Yep. Beasts are now the worst Mastermind power set, with Thugs on top. The rest are in the middle.

I just opened 203 presents in Imperial City and nothing. Last night, I opened about 45 in Imperial City, and the Winter Lord spawned. I was solo both times. I'd say at this point that it's random.